I don't have a favorite, and it varies by where and where I'm fishing, and the cover, but a spinnerbait, chatter bait, lipless, or square bill is what I'm usually staring with, honorable mention to a swim jig or swimbait.

Spinnerbait, lipless crankbait and chatterbait when it's early in the season

14 hours ago, WRB said:

Sonar unit to find bass and lures to catch them where I found them.

Tom

 

I agree. On new waters I spend a lot of time looking. When I find fish or structure I target the fish or structure. The exception would be small ponds. On small bodies of water I just start picking them apart by targeting areas that I think will hold fish. 

 

 

On my home water it’d be a spinnerbait, chatter bait, crankbaits and a 110 whopper plopper.

I like a variety of lures for this, but if I can get away with it I prefer a buzzbait or a Rat-L-Trap 

Spinnerbait or swim jig. 

 

Allen 

For covering water a crankbait.   

Crankbait, topwater, spinnerbait, lipless, and chatterbait.  I have at least one of them with me at all times.

How may BR members believe specific colors are important?

Black and blue in the consensus most popular jig color combination. How many black and blue crawdads have been posted....1. The most common crawdad colors are brown, Cinnamon and red. 

Jigs don’t always replicate crawdads! Green Pumpkin and Watermelon with red flack is the consensus most popular soft plastic and swim jig color. Why? If 1/2 the members don’t believe in color preference but yet they have their go to color.

I am in the camp color is very important to the bass as they proved over and over again.

Tom

 

If I want the best & fastest  coverage ?  Rapalas.  Or MEAT !   That covers a serious day.   Always

I will join the spinnerbait and lipless club. Both allow me to cover a lot of water with varying weed conditions. This is important for me because we usually spend only a couple of hours on the water so we can be off the lake when the recreational boaters take over. Lipless I used to be a RES guy but have had good luck recently with the 6th sense family of lipless baits.

I too have converted 1/2 of my lures to lipless. 

1 hour ago, WRB said:

How may BR members believe specific colors are important?

Black and blue in the consensus most popular jig color combination. How many black and blue crawdads have been posted....1. The most common crawdad colors are brown, Cinnamon and red. 

Jigs don’t always replicate crawdads! Green Pumpkin and Watermelon with red flack is the consensus most popular soft plastic and swim jig color. Why? If 1/2 the members don’t believe in color preference but yet they have their go to color.

I am in the camp color is very important to the bass as they proved over and over again.

Tom

 

Wrong thread this belongs in the Crawdad color post...whoops.

Tom

 

if i can get ONE on a buzzbait, the day is done and thats what im throwing the rest of the trip?

6 hours ago, Dogface said:

Sonar unit to find bass and lures to catch them where I found them.

Tom

 

6 hours ago, Dogface said:

I agree. On new waters I spend a lot of time looking. When I find fish or structure I target the fish or structure. The exception would be small ponds. On small bodies of water I just start picking them apart by targeting areas that I think will hold fish. 

Do yall have forward facing sonars and humming bird 360s?

Just SI. But I have a SI on the TM and can rotate it to sweep in front of the boat. 

13 hours ago, WRB said:

Wrong thread this belongs in the Crawdad color post...whoops.

Tom

 

  I made that booboo  a few times .

Like many others have said, the spinnerbait reigns supreme where I fish as far as a search tool. Ponds full of grass rule out crank baits, even a lipless is a pain to fish especially in the spring when the grass is really slimy and thick. 
 

You would imagine that would be prime chatterbait time, but I’ve never had any success with a chatterbait. 

I'm on the Spinnerbait bandwagon. If cover is sparse I have been running a chatterbait more. If cover is thicker,... As in laydowns, I mix in a swimjig.

Underspin swim bait.

On 4/27/2022 at 5:59 PM, WRB said:

How may BR members believe specific colors are important?

Black and blue in the consensus most popular jig color combination. How many black and blue crawdads have been posted....1. The most common crawdad colors are brown, Cinnamon and red. 

Jigs don’t always replicate crawdads! Green Pumpkin and Watermelon with red flack is the consensus most popular soft plastic and swim jig color. Why? If 1/2 the members don’t believe in color preference but yet they have their go to color.

I am in the camp color is very important to the bass as they proved over and over again.

Tom

 

 

On 4/27/2022 at 7:23 PM, WRB said:

Wrong thread this belongs in the Crawdad color post...whoops.

Tom

 

No problem, Tom. In fact this made me go read the crayfish color thread and I learned a lot and thought about certain things in bass fishing that I've never thought of/noticed before. Thanks

On 4/26/2022 at 11:52 PM, FishTank said:

A lipless crankbait or a heavier chatter bait. It use to be a spinnerbait but as of late nothing will bite one. 

 

This is my starting point until the grass gets so bad that throwing either is painful.  

 

On 4/27/2022 at 9:12 PM, Bruce424 said:

if i can get ONE on a buzzbait, the day is done and thats what im throwing the rest of the trip?

 

Once the grass is up, I'm going here.  By that point in the year the water is 75+ and the fish are eating topwaters pretty well from sunrise +/- 2 hours. 
 

If the grass has hit the surface and a buzzbait can't get through clean enough then we go here.  Its a favorite because it covers a lot of water, the fish love it, and i just love a topwater blowup at the crack of daylight.  That makes it a favorite for me.